Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain)
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Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain) was the exceptionally wealthy and powerful feudal domain centered in Kaga Province during Japan’s Edo period, famed for its vast rice production and economic strength.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7416236 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain) Context triple: [Kaga no Kuni, knownFor, Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain)]
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Tosa Domain
Tosa Domain was a feudal han in Shikoku during Japan’s Edo period, ruled by the Yamauchi clan and later known for producing influential Meiji-era political leaders.
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Shōnai Domain
Shōnai Domain was a powerful feudal han in Japan’s Edo period, located in present-day Yamagata Prefecture and ruled by the Sakai clan, noted for its staunch support of the Tokugawa shogunate during the late 19th century.
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C.
Nagaoka Domain
Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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D.
Kagoshima Domain
Kagoshima Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, centered in Satsuma and known for its leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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Tsuwano Domain
Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain) Target entity description: Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain) was the exceptionally wealthy and powerful feudal domain centered in Kaga Province during Japan’s Edo period, famed for its vast rice production and economic strength.
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A.
Tosa Domain
Tosa Domain was a feudal han in Shikoku during Japan’s Edo period, ruled by the Yamauchi clan and later known for producing influential Meiji-era political leaders.
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B.
Shōnai Domain
Shōnai Domain was a powerful feudal han in Japan’s Edo period, located in present-day Yamagata Prefecture and ruled by the Sakai clan, noted for its staunch support of the Tokugawa shogunate during the late 19th century.
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C.
Nagaoka Domain
Nagaoka Domain was a feudal han of the Edo period in Japan, ruled by daimyō and centered in what is now Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture.
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D.
Kagoshima Domain
Kagoshima Domain was a powerful feudal domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, centered in Satsuma and known for its leading role in the Meiji Restoration.
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E.
Tsuwano Domain
Tsuwano Domain was a small feudal han in western Japan’s Chūgoku region during the Edo period, centered on the castle town of Tsuwano in present-day Shimane Prefecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feudal domain
ⓘ
han domain ⓘ |
| administrativeCenter | Kanazawa Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| approximateKokudaka | 1,000,000 koku ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Maeda Toshiie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Maeda Toshinaga NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| capital | Kanazawa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centeredIn | Kaga Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Japan ⓘ |
| culturalRole | center of regional culture in Hokuriku ⓘ |
| daimyoClan | Maeda clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| economicBase |
agriculture
ⓘ
rice production ⓘ |
| economicRankInJapan | one of the wealthiest domains ⓘ |
| era | Edo period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feudalSystem | bakuhan system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| governanceForm | hereditary rule by daimyo ⓘ |
| governingClan | Maeda clan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | early modern Japan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | symbol of great domainal wealth ⓘ |
| knownAs | Kaga Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
patronage of arts and culture
ⓘ
supporting a large samurai population ⓘ |
| kokudakaType | rice-based assessment ⓘ |
| landAssessmentSystem | kokudaka system ⓘ |
| legacy | proverbial expression for great wealth in Japan ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Edo period Japan
ⓘ
Kaga Province NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| measurementUnitOfWealth | koku ⓘ |
| militaryRole | major military power among domains ⓘ |
| nickname | Kaga Domain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
economic strength
ⓘ
great wealth ⓘ vast rice production ⓘ |
| partOf | Hokuriku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalPower | one of the most powerful tozama domains ⓘ |
| politicalStatus | tozama domain ⓘ |
| region | Hokuriku region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialStructure | large samurai class ⓘ |
| sovereign | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolizedBy | image of one million koku of rice ⓘ |
| tributaryRelation | owed loyalty to the shogun ⓘ |
| typeOfWealth | agrarian surplus ⓘ |
| vassalTo | Tokugawa shogunate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wealthComparison | rivaled some smaller European states in revenue ⓘ |
| wealthSource | land tax in rice ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain) Description of subject: Kaga Hyakumangoku (one-million-koku domain) was the exceptionally wealthy and powerful feudal domain centered in Kaga Province during Japan’s Edo period, famed for its vast rice production and economic strength.
Referenced by (1)
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